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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1920
Page
2
The Wagner firm in Iowa City reports grain futures close as markets end for Good Friday. In Chicago, a yard strike has ended with workers voting to return to work while arbitration is pending.
C J Duncan of Cedar Rapids, sought in Duluth for embezzlement and bigamy, was arrested in Ponca Nebraska by P J Murphy of the Iowa National Detective agency. Murphy planned to return him to Duluth. Duncan vanished from Cedar Rapids weeks after being confronted by former Duluth men and used the alias McDonald in Duluth. He was a man of high financial standing in Cedar Rapids, believed worth over one million dollars.
The report lists farm department sale dates for April 2 and April 8 with buyers A L Logan of Washington and J G Love of Ainsworth for stock and household goods. It notes a Town State College Hereford herd bull Standard 45d sold for 3100 at the Chicago International show, bought as a calf from Cyrus Tow of Norway Iowa, and lineage through Standard and Lady B with Disturber. Agricultural advice from the Ohio Experiment Station covers soil fertility and fertilizer use.
Ohio Experiment Station tests show profitable potato production requires a lush clover sod after five years with 12 to 16 tons of manure per acre and 300 to 500 pounds of acid phosphate. Fertility researchers cannot yet explain why yields drop when grown repeatedly on the same land. surface broadcasting across the field is preferred to row by row application.
Public notice states a special election in the Consolidated Independent School District of Haskins Washington County Iowa on April 30 1920 from 1 PM to 6 PM at the School House. Voters will decide whether to issue bonds totaling 50000 for constructing and equipping a new school house and acquiring a site.
The Consolidated Independent School District directs all concerned to appear at the specified time and place as ordered by the Board of Directors. The notice cites a petition with required signatures under Sections 2820-d 1 et seq. of the 1913 Iowa Code. Dated Haskins Iowa March 20 1920. B W Cole Secretary Board of Directors.
Mrs Roy Hameton was in town this morning en route to her Pleasant Plain home after visiting relatives at Gladwin.
An advertisement warns that a child's cold increases risk of diphtheria and urges keeping the child home when diphtheria is prevalent. It touts Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a quick cure for colds and a way to lessen germ infection risk, citing Lemmon's Drug Store.
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